Japanese designer Yasutoshi Mifune has created a clothes stand with Y-shaped coat hangers that slot into the base when not in use.
Designed by Mifune Design Studio, the HC Hanger features a single steel rod attached to a matching circular base and bent back and forth to create three horizontal bars.
The flat plywood hangers stack neatly on the base when not required and are held in place by another short rod.
“We have some situations when a clothes hanger is not necessary, for example when we only hang a scarf,” Mifune said. “I wanted to make a product with a simple shape and a common material that we can use to store hangers when a clothes hanger is not needed.”
Yasutoshi Mifune originally designed the Y Hanger in 2012 and the stand is a development of the idea.
News:condoms made by combining latex with new wonder material graphene would be “thinner, stronger, safer and more pleasurable,” according to scientists developing uses for the ultra-thin material.
Combinins graphene – a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms that is just one atom thick – could revolutionise the design of condoms, say researchers.
“This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which should encourage and promote condom use,” said Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan of the University of Manchester.
Molecular structure of graphene
Yesterday his team announced it had received a £62,000 grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, set up by the Microsoft founder and his wife to tackle world health issues. The money will be used to develop the use of the material for protection against sexually transmitted infections.
“This will be achieved by combining the strength of graphene with the elasticity of latex to produce a new material which can be thinner, stronger, more stretchy, safer and, perhaps most importantly, more pleasurable,” Vijayaraghavan added.
Graphene has been hailed as the thinnest, strongest, most conductive material ever developed. It consists of a single plane of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, which makes it transparent and electrically conductive as well as strong and thin.
Composite particles of graphene and latex
It was first isolated by Manchester university researchers Andrew Geim and Kostya Novoselov in 2004, with their findings earning the scientists the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Since then, researchers have been exploring possible uses for the material. “Since its isolation in 2004, people have wondered when graphene will be used in our daily life,” said Vijayaraghavan. Other potential uses of graphene include mobile-phone screens, food packaging and chemical sensors.
Basée à Brooklyn, l’artiste Emily Weiskopf nous propose de découvrir sa dernière installation appelée ‘Unparallel Way’ et placée dans son quartier. Elle représente une structure jaune impressionnante sous la forme de rails sinueux. Le projet complet est découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
La municipalité de Birmingham en Alabama a demandé à l’artiste Bill FitzGibbons de réaliser une oeuvre colorée et rassurante de ce tunnel menant au centre ville construit en 1931. Avec LightRails, l’artiste nous propose un tunnel illuminé et coloré. A découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article
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One Hand, black
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French fashion brand Lacoste has enlisted graphic designer Peter Saville to reinterpret its famous crocodile logo for a range of polo shirts.
Lacoste presented Peter Saville with a blank canvas to redesign its L.12.12 polo shirt for the Holiday Collector no.8 range.
Saville chose to keep to the original colours of white polo and green logo, but abstracted the iconic crocodile to adorn the left breast of the shirts.
He created a string of squiggly, spiky and minimal iterations of the reptile, to be used in place of the design that has featured on Lacoste’s apparel since the company first launched tennis wear in 1933.
The logo was kept to roughly the same size and shape, though some designs are more abstract than others. The shirts come in translucent green packaging to match the logo’s colour.
Tennis player René Lacoste, the brand’s founder, was nicknamed The Crocodile after his Davis Cup team captain promised to buy him an alligator suitcase if he won an important match.
Earlier this year Lacoste asked Saville to design a new logo for the brand’s eightieth anniversary, which was used to adorn polo shirts, bags and other apparel.
Saville won the London Design Medal earlier this year and working with Kanye West to design a new visual identity for the rapper. His prints were used on garments and footwear in the Spring Summer 2014 collection by Japanese label Y-3.
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Hara Design Institute a imaginé récemment toute une série de niches au design étonnant. Chaque niche a été réalisée et pensée par un architecte différent proposant ainsi des structures adaptées aux différents types de chiens. Une réalisation très réussie « Architecture for Dogs » à découvrir dans la suite.
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